Description
Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Bengaluru, India
Department: Engineering
Experience: 6-10
Role Overview
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to lead and scale our infrastructure and DevOps practices. This role is a blend of hands-on technical contribution (IC) and strategic leadership, requiring deep expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, automation, and system reliability.
The ideal candidate will have experience in high-performance, real-time environments, preferably within the gaming industry, and will play a critical role in building and maintaining systems that power engaging, large-scale gaming experiences.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS.
- Architect and manage CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid, reliable releases.
- Act as a hands-on contributor, actively writing infrastructure-as-code, automating workflows, and troubleshooting production issues.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to DevOps and engineering teams, setting best practices and standards.
- Collaborate closely with game engineers, backend teams, and product stakeholders to support real-time, low-latency systems.
- Drive observability, monitoring, and incident response strategies to ensure high uptime and performance.
- Optimize infrastructure for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Establish and enforce security best practices, compliance, and governance across cloud environments.
- Lead initiatives around containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and microservices architecture.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
- Strong expertise in AWS services (EC2, EKS, S3, Lambda, RDS, CloudFront, IAM, VPC, etc.).
- Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.).
- Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with monitoring & observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).
- Solid scripting/programming skills (Python, Bash, or Go).
- Experience designing and operating highly available, distributed systems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience in the gaming industry or real-time, high-traffic consumer applications.
- Experience supporting multiplayer or live-service architectures.
- Familiarity with scaling systems for millions of users.
- Exposure to edge computing/CDN optimization (CloudFront, Fastly, etc.).
- Strong understanding of low-latency system design.
Leadership Expectations
- Act as a technical leader and decision-maker for DevOps strategy.
- Balance hands-on IC work (~70-80%) with team leadership and mentorship (~30-20%).
- Influence cross-functional teams and drive engineering excellence.
- Lead by example in ownership, reliability, and operational excellence.
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